At 09:04 AM 08/25/2002 EDT, you wrote: >Have been perusing copies of deeds from Pendleton County....time frame of >1780-1820. The intent was to compare signatures from deeds written in other >counties. Well...the deeds in Pendleton County that I have are signed "by the >same hand" that wrote the deed. If there are three signatures, all are "by >the same hand." Has anyone else encountered this problem? From counties other >than Pendleton? > >My question: Is it possible these deeds were transcribed by hand from earlier >records? And if so, where are the earlier records? The recorded deed better be all in one hand-writing, because if it isn't, then there've been (possibly illegal) changes made. The owner of the deed kept his original with the signatures; the county clerk simply "recorded" it by hand-copying it. Cheryl *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Cheryl Singhal ([email protected]) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC)